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[TheBoy]

I take It the egr circuit can't be fiddled to loop the egr out of it all together! Brake pad sensor style?

Anything is possible, but reckon it won't be that simple...

Is it an EGR fault code again?

As I would expect the light to have come on as soon as the engine was warmed up.

Not seen car again, so was trying to be forewarned.

[Jimbob]

Can you remember what you did in TIS when doing this update?  took me a bit to get one sorted.

May 08

what not when

cylinder head types ring any bells?

[TheBoy]

Can you remember what you did in TIS when doing this update?  took me a bit to get one sorted.

May 08

what not when

cylinder head types ring any bells?

When doing the engine ecu software update? There seemed to be no selectable options.  As said, this one is an automatic.

[Jimbob]

yes...mine asked for old or new cylinder head...

select old, and just let an update occur.

select new, the version was a lower number, but different, and the comments box said solves egr issue, ir words to that effect.

may have been a slightly different engine...what year was this one?

[TheBoy]

2001.

Was yours a manual?

[Jimbob]

2002 manual

[TheBoy]

2002 manual

T'interweb seems to imply possible on manuals, not possible on autos...

[Jimbob]

boooo

[MaxV6]

just let me know when you'll have a little time at a weekend , and i'll bring the roller skate back over..... 

(i need to borrow the TC card as well.....   brakes, battery, oil,  etc... for the mv6)

[Radar]

TB - I know you know your stuff so this might not help but my dads astra g 1.6 auto used to cut out/stall. We fitted an extra earthing point one in the relay area in the engine and 3 years on it has never troubled us since.

[TheBoy]

TB - I know you know your stuff so this might not help but my dads astra g 1.6 auto used to cut out/stall. We fitted an extra earthing point one in the relay area in the engine and 3 years on it has never troubled us since.

I think the syptoms are cured (MaxV6?), but EML still coming on. Ideally need to check codes again.

[MaxV6]

generally been reliable running ,  i think it's stalled twice since we bought it,  both times, it'd just been started and she was just about to maneuver , it's never cut out....  to be honest,  i've been somewhat surprised,  remembering how much hassle i got off an EGR on one of my elites.... 


let me know when's good for you Jaime,  and i'll pop over and see what the codes say... 

(assuming i can prise it off the girly.....    she loves being independent and buggering off to see her friends for the weekend without bothering to tell us....  )

[TheBoy]

MaxV6 - as its currently reliable enough, can it wait a fortnight or so, as I'm pretty tied up?

I feel a plan forming, involving popping over your way one Saturday afternoon, as my mate wants to buy you a pint.  He is very happy with how you transformed it.

[MaxV6]

sounds entirely workable to me..... 


just one thing, we're moving house, sometime mid-late april.....      assuming the offer i just put in is accepted......       new place , if we get it,  is over by marston/headington  and has a driveway long enough to put a whole pile of omegas on it !!!!   not to mention  2 garages, .......